Past Colloquium | Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Past Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Title
09 February 2017 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Luis C. Ho Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing	Supermassive Black Holes: Impact on Galaxy Formation and Evolution
17 May 2016 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Nikku Madhusudhan Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK	Extrasolar Planets: The New Frontier in Modern Astronomy
17 May 2016 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Nikku Madhusudhan Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK	Extrasolar Planets: The New Frontier in Modern Astronomy
02 February 2016 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Robert Erdelyi University of Sheffield, UK	Leap forward in Space Weather forecast: Novel prediction of flares and CMEs
15 December 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Sarbani Basu Yale University, USA	Investigating the heart of a star
04 December 2015 Friday 00:00 hrs	Paul S. Cally School of Mathematical Sciences and Monash Center for Astrophysics, Monash University, Clayton Victoria, Australia	The Wounded Sun - Low Atmosphere and Seismology
01 December 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	H.C. Spruit Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany	Magnetic fields in non-convective (regions of) stars
26 November 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	R. N. Manchester CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Sydney, Australia	Pulsars and their Emission
23 October 2015 Friday 15:30 hrs	Bala Iyer ICTS, TIFR, Bangalore	The elusive GW: A GR centenary Perspective
19 October 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Alexander Tchekovskoy UC Berkeley, USA	Simulations of black hole accretion and jets
12 October 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Roger Blandford KIPAC, Stanford University, USA	General Relativity in the 21st Century: Experimental Tests and Cosmology
27 January 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	A. R. Rao Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India	Jets in black hole sources: microquasars, quasars, and GRBs
16 December 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	K. Ramasubramanian IIT Mumbai	The distinctive features of Indian Planetary model
25 November 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Nissim Kanekar National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	Do the Fundamental Constants change with time ?
19 December 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Raymond F. Bishop University of Manchester, UK	CONFRONTING THE QUANTUM MANY-BODY PROBLEM: AN OVERVIEW OF THE COUPLED CLUSTER METHOD AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS
12 December 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	K. Porsezian Pondicherry University, Pondicherry	Linear and Nonlinear Propagation Effects in Optical Fibers : Recent Applications
28 November 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	J. Srinivasan Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc, Bangalore	Should we be concerned about global warming?
12 November 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Kandaswamy Subramanian IUCAA, Pune	Fluctuation to mean field turbulent dynamos: The search for coherence
11 June 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	R. Srianand IUCAA, Pune	Probing the Universe with QSO absorption lines
02 April 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	N. Udayashankar Raman Research Institute	Adventures in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy and Cosmology
20 November 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Random Processes on Fractal like objects
25 September 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Rajesh Kochhar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali	Kodaikanal Observatory as a world astronomy heritage site
06 August 2012 Monday 00:00 hrs	G. Rajasekaran IMSc	Standard Model, Higgs boson and what next?
06 March 2012 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard -Smithsonian CfA	Stellar and Planetary Theory: New Insights from the Kepler Mission
31 January 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Sourav Pal National Chemical Laboratory	Predictive theories for structure and dynamics of molecules
08 November 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Changbom Park Center for Advanced Computation, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea	How Are Galaxy Properties Related With Their Environment?
21 June 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Girjesh Gupta Indian Institute of Astrophysics	On the Nature of Propagating MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
14 June 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Uma Gorti NASA Ames/SETI, US	Gas Emission Lines from Protoplanetary Disks
12 April 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Sudhir Vempati Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science	From Tiny scales to Large Scales: What is the LHC going to tell us ?
29 March 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	S.Sridhar Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Interstellar, Interplanetary and MHD Turbulence
01 March 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Diptiman Sen Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc	Quantum Games
15 February 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Wei-Tou Ni National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Probing the Co-Evolution of Galaxies with Black Holes via Space Gravitational-Wave Detection
25 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	David Buckley SALT, South Africa	Science with SALT
18 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	N. Udaya Shankar Raman Research Institute	A southern Sky Survey at 150 MHz using the Mauritius Radio Telescope:
04 January 2011 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Indranil Chattopadhyay ARIES, Nainital	Effect of plasma composition on black hole� accretion disc solutions
21 December 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Ramarao Tata Institiuto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain	A multi-wavelength survey of the young open cluster NGC6823
14 December 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Frank Hill National Solar Observatory, USA	Helioseismic Observations of Solar Convection Zone Dynamics and their Relationship to Solar Activity
23 November 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	P.R. Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	HIGH ENERGY SKY: PROGRESS IN GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY
05 October 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	T.N. Rengarajan Former member, TIFR, Mumbai	UNDERSTANDING THE RADIO-FAR-INFRARED CORRELATION IN GALAXIES
28 September 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Viktor Fedun University of Sheffield, UK	3D numerical simulations of torsional Alfven waves
07 September 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Arnab Rai Choudhuri Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science	Can we predict sunspot cycles?
31 August 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	G. Vigeesh Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Structure, dynamics and heating in magnetized regions of solar atmosphere
17 August 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Blesson Mathew Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of emission-line stars in young open clusters
03 August 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	A. Arellano Ferro Instituto de Astronom�a, Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico	CCD Photometry of globular Clusters: the ongoing program
13 July 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Stuart Jefferies Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii	Observing the Sun from the Geographic South Pole
22 June 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Kiran Jain National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA	GONG and MDI Observations over a Solar Cycle
01 June 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Chiranjib Konar Indian Institute of Astrophysics	RADIO GALAXIES AND THEIR DYNAMICS
25 May 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	N. Mukunda Indian Institute of Science (Retd)	The Three Roles of Symmetry in Fundamental Physics
13 April 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Jean-Claude Vial Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France	New French Programmes in Space Instrumentation for Solar Research
30 March 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Margarita Safonova Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Quest for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters
02 March 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Gargi Shaw Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai	Spectroscopic Signatures of Star Formation at High Redshift
23 February 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Manoj Puravankara University of Rochester, Rochester, USA	The Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
16 February 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	David J Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA	Highlights from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
05 January 2010 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Dhrubaditya Mitra Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK	Understanding the Solar Dynamo: Some Recent Results
22 December 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Mousumi Das Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani, Hyderabad	The Dark Side of Galaxy Evolution : Extreme Late Type Galaxies
24 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Ramit Bhattacharyya National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA	Spontaneous Current Sheet Formation: Untwisted Magnetic Field Lines
17 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Yuri Schekinov Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia	Gas in Gamma-ray Burst Hosts
10 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Peter L Biermann Max-Planck-Institut f�r Radioastronomie & Univeristy of Bonn, Germany	Understanding Supermassive Black Holes
03 November 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Sun Kwok University of Hong Kong, China	The Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
27 October 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	B. S. Shylaja Bangalore Association for Science Education	The Madras Observatory and Contemporary Indian Astronomy
13 October 2009 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Varun Sahni Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Puzzling over Einstein�s `Blunder�: Why does the Universe Accelerate?
29 September 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K. Elankumaran RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai	Non-linear Effects in Waves: Experimental Studies with Ultrasonics
08 September 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany	Recent Highlights from the MAGIC Experiment
11 August 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	P Narayana Bhat University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA	Gamma-ray Burst Astronomy in the FERMI Era
28 July 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	M Sampoorna Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain	The Enigma of the Scattering Polarization in the Wings of the Solar Ca I 4227 A Line
14 July 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rafael Garcia Service d�Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Solar-like Stars: From the Core of the Sun to the Stars
30 June 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel	Discovery of a Nearby Dark Matter Filament
02 June 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d�Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	On the Formation of Extremely Massive Star Clusters
31 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David P�rez-Su�rez Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Northern Ireland	Structure and Evolution of Coronal Bright Points in the Sun
24 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Investigating Globular Clusters using the Technique of Simulated Spectra
17 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	POSTPONED
03 March 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Varsha Chitnis Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	The Universe at Very High Gamma-Ray Energies
10 February 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Robert J. Rutten Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht, The Netherlands	Observing, Interpreting, and Using the Solar Chromosphere
03 February 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Savita Mathur Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Tracking Solar Gravity Modes: The Holy Grail Quest for Helioseismology
27 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Karen J Meech University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA	Origin of Earth�s Water
20 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Super-Earth Planets: Exploring Environments with Habitable Potential
13 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dhrubaditya Mitra Queen Mary College, University of London, London, UK	Understanding the Solar Dynamo : Some Recent Results
06 January 2009 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rahul Shetty Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Spiral Arm Structure and Cloud Formation in Disk Galaxies
23 December 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jan Olof Stenflo Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland	The Second Solar Spectrum
16 December 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Alain Omont Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France	High Redshift Ultra-Luminous Far-IR Galaxies (Submillimeter Galaxies) in Spitzer Surveys
25 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Paola di Matteo Observatory of Paris, Meudon, France	Evolution of Galaxies in Pairs: Learning from Simulations
18 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hamed Moradi Monash University, Victoria, Australia	The Role of Near-Surface Magnetic Fields in Sunspot Seismology
11 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Inwoo Han Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea	Searching for Exoplanets
04 November 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jayaram Chengalur National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	FIGGS: The Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey
14 October 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Developments in the Helioseismic Imaging of the Deep Solar Interior and Sunspot Structure
07 October 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K Nagaraju Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: Spectropolarimetry of Active Regions on the Sun
16 September 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sampoorna M. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: The Nature of Solar Surface Magnetism: Theoretical Approaches Based on Spectropolarimetry
26 August 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dipak Munshi Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK	Finger-printing the Universe : Error in Error-bars
12 August 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Monica Valluri University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA	The Dynamical Evolution of Dark Matter Halos
08 July 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More
24 June 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Quasars in SDSS and GALEX Databases
13 May 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Katharina Lodders Washington University, St. Louis, USA	Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
29 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Amanda Karakas Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia	Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
22 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Simon Jeffery Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Northern Ireland	FG Sagittae - Chemical Evolution Over Half a Century: Was the Thermal Pulse Late or Very Late?
08 April 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Attila Grandpierre Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary	Dynamics in the Solar Core
25 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Neeharika Verma Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	The Galactic Cosmic Ray Flux Decline and the Periodicities Revealed by Meteorites
11 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sankarasubramanian Kasiviswanathan ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore	Science Using Solar Adaptive Optics: Successes and Future Requirements
04 March 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Rajaram Nityananda National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	Astronomical Data: Separating Baby and Bathwater
19 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Guido Risaliti Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy	Unveiling the Structure of the Circum-nuclear Medium of AGNs through Time-resolved X-ray Spectroscopy
12 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sanjeev Dhurandhar Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	The Global Search for Gravitational Waves
05 February 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Almudena Alonso-Herrero Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), Madrid, Spain	Characterizing Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies: Towards Understanding their More Distant Cousins
29 January 2008 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Nandita Srivastava Udaipur Solar Observatory, PRL, Udaipur	Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun in 3-D: Early Results from the Coronagraph COR1 aboard STEREO
18 December 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jnanadeva Maharana Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Unification of Fundamental Forces and String Theory
04 December 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dibyendu Nandi Montana State University, Bozeman, USA	The Sun´s Magnetic Cycle: Current State of our Understanding
27 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Dipankar P. K. Banerjee Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	Postponed
27 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Trevor C. Weekes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	CANCELLED: The TeV Gamma-ray Universe; Photons from Hell
13 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Luca Teriaca Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany	Polar Plumes as Seen in the Vacuum Ultraviolet
06 November 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Christopher Reynolds University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Constraining Black Hole Spin with X-ray Spectroscopy
18 September 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Bala Iyer Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Deciphering the Universe with Gravitational Wave Astronomy
04 September 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Joanna Mikolajewska Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland	Mass Transfer in Symbiotic Binaries
21 August 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David Lambert University of Texas, Austin, USA	Stellar Abundance Anomalies - Always Nucleosynthetic?
07 August 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Naresh Dadhich Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	Gravity and Higher Dimensions - A Classical Motivation
24 July 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Abhijit Saha National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA	A New Survey of Stars in the Outer Extremities of the Magellanic Clouds
10 July 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Alok Gupta Yunnan Observatory, Kunming, China	Variability of AGNs on Diverse Time Scales
17 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	K.V.P. Latha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thesis Colloquium: Probing CP Violation with Atomic Electric Dipole Moment of Hg
10 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pijushpani Bhattacharjee Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	Probing Supernovae - Gamma Ray Burst Connection with Neutrinos
03 April 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Varendra Das Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Narrow-line Region Kinematics in Seyfert Galaxies
20 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Reji Mathew Thomas Indian Institute of Astrophysics	THESIS COLLOQUIUM: Emission of Radiation in a Pulsar Magnetosphere Owing to Charged Acceleration
13 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Gary Ferland University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA	Orion: A Case Study of Star Formation in a Magnetized Medium
06 March 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Ajit Kembhavi Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Warm Absorbers in Active Galactic Nuclei
27 February 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Achamveedu Gopakumar Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany	Gravitational Wave Astronomy
06 February 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jeffrey Crelinsten The Impact Group, Toronto, Canada	Einstein`s Jury : Trial by Telescope
16 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Banibrata Mukhopadhyay Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science	The Accretion disk and its Transport Mechanism The Current Status
09 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The Johns Hopkins University	SIM, Stellar Aberration, and Special Relativity
02 January 2007 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Ken�ichi Nomoto University of Tokyo, Japan	First Star - Hypernova Connection: Explosive Nucleosynthesis and Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
12 December 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Wilhelm H. Kegel Zentrum fuer Astronomie & Astrophysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany	Line Formation in Media with Stochastic Velocity Fields
21 November 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Miruna D. Popescu Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland	Small-scale dymanics in coronal holes
31 October 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Palash Baran Pal Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkota	Level-crossing Phenomena in Astrophysics
03 October 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Mike Dopita Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University	All About HII Regions
19 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Firoza Sutaria Pennsylvania State University, USA	Magnetars under the Chandra and XMM-Newton Eye
12 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Sudip Bhattacharyya NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA	What Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts can tell us about Neutron Stars
05 September 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Tiziana Venturi Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy	Occurrence of Radio Halos and Relics in Galaxy Clusters: Hints on their Origin and Properties from a Deep GMRT 610 MHz Cluster Survey
29 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	David Lambert Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA	The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
22 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Holger Merlitz Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China	Sliding Down the Double Helix: How do Proteins Find their Binding Sites Inside the Cell Nucleus?
08 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Statistical Problems in Astronomy
01 August 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	P. Shalima Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Studies of Interstellar Dust
25 July 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Biman Nath Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Clues to Early Universe from Fossil Stars
11 July 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	D. Indumathi Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Cosmic-ray Muons, Atmospheric Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillations in the Back-drop of the India-based Neutrino Observatory
27 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Chanda Jog Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Vertical Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies
20 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Vinay Kashyap Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA	X-raying Stellar Coronae: Structure, Composition, and Energetics
20 June 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hari Dass Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Do you need to understand General Relativity to understand Gravitation?
30 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Armando Arellano Ferro Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Fourier decomposition of RR Lyrae Light Curves and the Oosterhoff Dichotomy
23 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	R. T. Gangadhara Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Pulsar Radio Emission Altitude
02 May 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Pushpa Khare Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar	Metal and Dust Content of the Universe as Determined through QSO Absorption Lines
04 April 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Tarun Deep Saini Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science	The Mystery of the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
28 March 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Hagai Netzer Tel-Aviv University, Israel	Cosmic Evolution of Black Hole Mass and Metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei
14 March 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Kumar Chitre Dept. of Physics, University of Mumbai	Seismic View of the Solar Interior
28 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Vojtech Rusin Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, The Slovak Republic	Large-scale Circulations of Prominences and the 530.3 nm Corona
14 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Jim E. Pringle Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK	Spinning Black Holes - Which Way do they Point?
07 February 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Wolfgang Kalkofen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Is The Solar Chromosphere Always Hot?
31 January 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Mousumi Das Raman Research Institute Bangalore	Observations of Radio Jets and Molecular Gas in Nearby Radio Loud Galaxies
19 January 2006 Thursday 16:30 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The Johns Hopkins University	The Diffuse Ultraviolet Background
17 January 2006 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	S. Kawakami Osaka City University Japan	Origin of the most Energetic Cosmic Rays

Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
12 June 2017 Monday 15:30 hrs	Norbert Magyar Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics - KU Leuven	Dynamic coronal seismology
09 June 2017 Friday 15:30 hrs	B. P. Hema Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Abundance analyses of the new R Coronae Borealis stars: ASAS-RCB-8 and ASAS-RCB-10
09 June 2017 Friday 11:30 hrs	Vivek, M University of Utah	The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and survey operation
02 June 2017 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sharan Asundi Tuskegee University, USA	Facilitating Research and Education in Space Science and Engineering through Classroom Satellite Kits and Rudimentary Infrastructure
31 May 2017 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Rohan Eugene Louis Leibniz-Institut for Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam	Investigating magnetic flux emergence through multi-wavelength observations
12 May 2017 Friday 11:30 hrs	Vikram Rentala Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	Direct and indirect detection of dark matter
11 May 2017 Thursday 15:30 hrs	NANCY NARANG Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	IRIS view on two-component structure of solar transition region
03 May 2017 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Digbijoy Nath Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc, Bangalore	Wide Band Gap Solar Blind detectors for UV astronomy
28 April 2017 Friday 15:30 hrs	Yihua Yan CAS Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China	On Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph: Introduction and Observations
28 April 2017 Friday 11:30 hrs	Tanmoy Samanta Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Could Chromospheric jets supply energy to the Corona?
12 April 2017 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	SUVENDU RAKSHIT Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies: a peculiar class
11 April 2017 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Jagdev Singh Formerly associated with Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Analysis of Ca-K line images of the Sun for the 20th century data obtained at Kodaikanal Observatory
07 April 2017 Friday 11:30 hrs	Anupreeta More Kavli Institute, Japan	Probing the dark side of the Universe with strong gravitational lensing
03 April 2017 Monday 15:30 hrs	Reynier Peletier Kapteyn Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	The Fornax Deep Survey
23 March 2017 Thursday 11:30 hrs	James Unwin University of Illinois at Chicago	Dark Matter Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Fermi Repulsion
13 March 2017 Monday 15:30 hrs	Miho Nitta Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8583, JAPAN	The first stars probed by elemental abundances of extremely metal-poor stars
10 March 2017 Friday 15:30 hrs	Koji Kawabata Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan	Faint Type Iax SN 2014dt and Faint Type IIP SN 2016bkv Revealed by Long-Term Optical and NIR Observations
23 February 2017 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Mainpal Rajan IUCAA, Pune	X-ray/UV/Optical Variability in Seyfert 1 galaxies
22 February 2017 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Garima Singh Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA	Direct imaging of Exoplanets at small inner working angle
02 February 2017 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Sudip Mandal Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Results From Kodaikanal Digitized White-light Data Archive (1921-2011)
30 January 2017 Monday 15:30 hrs	Projjwal Banerjee Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China	Did a Low-Mass Supernova Trigger the Formation of the Solar System? Clues from Stable Isotopes and 10Be
13 January 2017 Friday 15:30 hrs	Fred Raab LIGO Labs, Caltech	Exploring the New Frontier of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
11 January 2017 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Sudhanshu Barway SAAO, Cape Town, South Africa	Caught in Transformation - Curious Case of S0 Galaxies
10 January 2017 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Sourav Chatterjee North Western University, USA	Understanding the Extraordinary Diversity of Exoplanets
04 January 2017 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Sibasish Laha Queen�s University of Belfast, U.K.	Quasar evolution and outflows in X-ray
16 December 2016 Friday 15:30 hrs	Stephen Appleby Korea Institute for Advanced Study	The topology of the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe
08 December 2016 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Akondi Vyas Instituto de Optica, Spain	Digital wavefront sensing and phase unwrapping
30 November 2016 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Yuri Schekinov Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow	Russian space observatory
24 November 2016 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sayan Biswas CAPSS, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata	A production scenario and an estimation of the flux of galactic strangelets
03 November 2016 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Joe Philip Ninan NCRA-GMRT Pune	Understanding Episodic Accretion and Outflows in Young Stellar Objects
27 October 2016 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Paul Wiita The College of New Jersey	Measuring and Modelling Variability in Blazars
25 October 2016 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	NIMISH HATHI LAM-Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France	Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the JWST/TMT Era
13 October 2016 Thursday 11:30 hrs	J. P. Rozelot J.P. Rozelot, Nice University, France	How big is the Sun? A critical assessement of the diameter data over the centuries.
28 September 2016 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Vinu Vikram Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, Chicago, USA	Dark Energy Survey: Dark matter and Baryons
14 September 2016 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Kuldeep Verma Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Centre of Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai, Mumbai.	Seismic study of sun-like stars using glitch analysis and machine learning approaches
14 September 2016 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Subhabrata Majumdar TIFR, Mumbai	Back to Dark Matter Astrophysics for Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches
06 September 2016 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Bidya Binay Karak High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA	Solar Magnetic Fields and Cycles: Understanding the Dynamo Mechanism
19 July 2016 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	B. N. Dwivedi Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India	THE SUNSHINE, NEUTRINOS, AND OUR UNIVERSE
15 July 2016 Friday 15:30 hrs	Dominik Utz Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics (CmPA), KU-Leuven	Small-scale solar magnetic fields as seen by Magnetic Bright Points � Some recent results
27 May 2016 Friday 15:30 hrs	Harshawardhan Wanare Dept. of Physics, IIT, Kanpur	Coherent effects in light-matter interaction
16 May 2016 Monday 15:30 hrs	Sujan Sengupta Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	From Exoplanets to Exomoons : Detection through Polarization
27 April 2016 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Vineeth Valsan Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Development of Stressed Mirror Polishing Technology
30 March 2016 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Vikram Khaire IUCAA, Pune	Star formation history, dust correction, and the extragalactic background light
17 March 2016 Thursday 11:30 hrs	K. Pandey NCRA, PUNE	Constraints on primordial magnetic fields using various cosmological observables
08 March 2016 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Name of the Speaker Affiliation of the speaker	Title of the talk
04 March 2016 Friday 11:30 hrs	Alphonse Sterling NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center	Revised View of Solar X-Ray Jets
23 February 2016 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Arnaud Mahieux Institut Royal d Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique (BIRA/IASB), Brussels, Belgium	Eight years of observations of the Venus
22 February 2016 Monday 15:30 hrs	Girish Kulkarni Cambridge University	Small-scale Structure of the IGM and its Measurement Using Quasar Pairs
21 January 2016 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Pavan Kumar Aluri IUCAA, Pune	Estimating hidden signals of anisotropy directly from masked CMB sky
12 January 2016 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Modeling the diffuse ultraviolet background
08 January 2016 Friday 15:30 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	New results from Kodaikanal digitised archive
06 January 2016 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Bhargav Vaidya Department of Physics, University of Torino	Synthetic observatory for Astrophysical Jets : Dynamics, Chemistry and Particle Acceleration
30 December 2015 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	P. K. Manoharan NCRA, TIFR	Current State of Reduced Solar Activity and Solar Wind Conditions
29 December 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Nat Gopalswamy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Current Polar Activity of the Sun and Its Implications for Solar Cycle 25
29 December 2015 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	L. S. Anusha Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany	Evolution of magnetic features on the quiet Sun and nonequilibrium hydrogen ionization in the chromosphere
17 December 2015 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Amit Shukla ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics	Implication of detection of very hard spectra from TeV blazar Mrk501
26 November 2015 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Aditya Rotti Florida State University	Probing B-mode foregrounds using estimators of isotropy violation
24 November 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Piyali Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Modeling repeatedly flaring delta-sunspot
20 November 2015 Friday 15:30 hrs	Changbom Park Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea	Cosmological Constraints from the Redshift Dependence of Galaxy Clustering Anisotropy: An Alcock-Paczynski Test
18 November 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Benjamin L`Huillier Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea	The ecology of dark matter halos
16 November 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Wasim Iqbal Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of formation of molecules on the surface of interstellar dust grains using Continuous Time Random Walk Monte Carlo Simulation.
10 November 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Koshy George Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Revealing the nature of blue elliptical galaxies at low redshift
21 October 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Dharam Vir Lal NCRA	Radio galaxies: Understanding from radio and X-ray data
21 October 2015 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Suvendu Rakshit Observatoire De La Cote D'Azur, France	Innermost structure of quasars using optical interferometry and reverberation mapping
13 October 2015 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Chandreyee Sengupta Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)	Small nascent galaxies in the debris of interacting systems
30 September 2015 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Suresh Doravari Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Advanced LIGO: Working principles and Technical challenges
29 September 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Jagdev Singh Formerly at Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Variations in Ca-K line profiles as a function of latitude and solar cycle phase : Implication to Meridional flows
13 August 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	S. Ananthakrishnan Electronic Science Department, Pune University	Declining solar polar fields and their signatures in the solar wind : Implications to Near Earth space
23 July 2015 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Chaitanya Giri Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany	Organic Astrochemistry and Solar System Exploration post ESA's Rosetta mission
17 July 2015 Friday 11:30 hrs	Remya Nair IUCAA, PUNE	Probing late time acceleration with theory and observations
10 July 2015 Friday 11:30 hrs	A. B. Sudhakara Reddy University of Texas at Austin, USA	Abundance Patterns of Open Clusters and the Galactic Chemical Evolution
08 July 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Sumanta Sarkhel Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee	Physics in the Upper Atmosphere: Understanding the origin of unusual phenomena using active and passive remote sensing techniques
07 July 2015 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Brijesh Kumar ARIES, Nainital	3.6m Devasthal Optical Telesope Project : current status and science opportunities
19 June 2015 Friday 11:30 hrs	Sudha Rajamani IISER, Pune	How did life chemically originate on early Earth?
18 June 2015 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Thushara Pillai Max-Planck, Bonn	Unraveling the Structure of Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way and Beyond
17 June 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Mahendra K. Verma Department of Physics , IIT Kanpur	Energy transfers in large-scale and small-scale dynamos
15 June 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Tanmoy Samanta Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATION OF A SOLAR CORONAL BRIGHT POINT
29 May 2015 Friday 15:30 hrs	Ding Yuan Center for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, KULeuven, Belgium	Forward Modelling of MHD waves in coronal loops
18 May 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Koushik Dutta SINP, Kolkata	Known and unknown in beginning of hot big bang
27 April 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Yuki Yokokura International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore	The Interior of Near-equilibrium Black Holes
09 April 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Athira Menon Monash University, Victoria, Australia	The quest for blue supergiants : The evolution of the progenitor of SN 1987A
01 April 2015 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	R. Sridharan ESO, Chile	Speckle Imaging
06 March 2015 Friday 15:30 hrs	Vaibhav Pant Indian Institute of Astrophysics	FLOWS AND WAVES IN BRAIDED SOLAR CORONAL MAGNETIC STRUCTURES
26 February 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Vishal Gajjar Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Urumqi, China	On the absence of pulses from pulsars
25 February 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Bindu Rani Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy	Where and how gamma-rays are produced in AGN jets
25 February 2015 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Arabindo Roy CEA, France	Lessons learnt from Herschel Gould Belt Survey observations
23 February 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	S Krishna Prasad Queens University of Belfast, U. K.	MHD seismology using propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves
12 February 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	David B. Jess School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast	Determining Coronal Magnetic Fields from Ubiquitous Sunspot Oscillations
12 February 2015 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Jeff Wagg Square Kilometre Array Organization, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK	The Square Kilometre Array
04 February 2015 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra NAO, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	Lithium Anomaly, Infrared Excess and Rapid Rotation in RGB stars: Does the planet engulfment play a role?
19 January 2015 Monday 15:00 hrs	Yashwant Gupta NCRA-TIFR	From the GMRT to Square Kilometre Array : Status and Plans for the Future
19 January 2015 Monday 11:30 hrs	Sovan Chakraborty Theory Department, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany.	Neutrino Astrophysics: Challenges and Possibilities
13 January 2015 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Jean-Pierre Rozelot Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France	Solar Quadrupole moment and Purely Relativistic Gravitation Contributions
12 January 2015 Monday 15:30 hrs	Susmita Chakravorty IPAG, Grenoble, France	Winds from the close neighbourhoods of black holes
12 December 2014 Friday 11:30 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel Aviv University	Astronomy from nano-satellites
27 November 2014 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Kunal Mooley Caltech, U.S.A	Slow Transient Surveys with the VLA
21 November 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	David Buckley SALT, South Africa	The Southern African Large Telescope: from concept to reality
14 November 2014 Friday 11:30 hrs	C. R. Subramanya Raman Research Institute	264-element Ooty Wide Field Array - A new lease of life for ORT
07 November 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	P. F. Chen Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University	Counter-streamings and Chirality of Solar Filaments
05 November 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Tom Van Doorsselaere Center for Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Belgium	Propagation of energy by MHD waves in the solar corona
24 October 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Peter Keys Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.	Observing the small-scale in the solar atmosphere
21 October 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Biswajit Paul Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Interplanetary Space Navigation with X-ray Pulsars
20 October 2014 Monday 11:30 hrs	Sharanya Sur School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA	Magnetic fields during primordial star formation and turbulent mixing
14 October 2014 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Arjun Dey NOAO, USA	Lyman Alpha Emission and Galaxy Formation: An Observer's Perspective
01 October 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Angela Adamo Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden	Star clusters near and far; understanding the interplay between cluster formation and galactic environment from local galaxies to high z
30 September 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Arjan Bik Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden	Embedded clusters as laboratories of star formation
19 September 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Amit Shukla TIFR, Mumbai	Nature of Particle acceleration and emissions from TeV blazars
18 August 2014 Monday 15:30 hrs	Annapurni Subramaniam Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Riding on the Clouds: A dive into the Small Magellanic Cloud
18 August 2014 Monday 11:30 hrs	P. Vemareddy Udaipur Solar Observatory	A Study on the Formation and Initiation of Magnetic Flux Ropes
30 July 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Formerly at Indian Institute of Astrophysics,Bangalore	Charles Michie Smith - founder of the Kodaikanal Observatory and beginnings of physical astronomy in India
28 July 2014 Monday 15:30 hrs	Ravinder K. Banyal Indian Institute of Astrophysics,Bangalore	A laser-lock concept for tracking the frequency stability of a Fabry-Perot wavelength calibrator for astronomy
14 July 2014 Monday 11:30 hrs	David Mkrtichian National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand	Precise radial velocities in exoplanet searches and asteroseismology
11 July 2014 Friday 11:30 hrs	Manjari Bagchi International Centre for Theoretical Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore	Binary Radio Pulsars: Prospects and Problems
10 July 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Binod Sreenivasan Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Understanding polarity reversals of the Earth's magnetic field
19 June 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Debanjan Bose Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea	High Energy Astrophysics: probing relativistic Universe
06 June 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Jean Surdej Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, Liège University	Observing multiply imaged quasars with the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope
15 May 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Birgitta Nordstrom Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark	The origin and enrichment history of the heaviest and lightest elements
24 April 2014 Thursday 11:30 hrs	F. Gent School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield	Supernova regulated ISM: the multiphase structure, magnetic field and the dynamo
01 April 2014 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Piyali Chatterjee High Altitude Observatory, USA	Occurrences of fast and possibly cannibalistic coronal mass ejections: insights from flux rope simulations
14 March 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Masayuki Yamanaka Kyoto University, Japan	Observational Study of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae with Rise Time
13 March 2014 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Koji Kawabata Hiroshima University, Japan	SGMAP: Optical Polarimetric Survey Project in Hiroshima
12 March 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Nirupam Roy Max-Planck-Institute for Radio-astronomy, Germany	Radio and X-ray observations of Novae
05 March 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Marilena Mierla Royal Observatory of Belgium	Coronal mass ejections: detection, 3D reconstruction and propagation
04 March 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa University of Maryland, USA	Solar Type III Radio Bursts: Non-linear Wave-wave Interactions
18 February 2014 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Jerome Martin Institue of Astrophysics, Paris	Inflation after Planck
05 February 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Shri Kulkarni Caltech	Astronomy: This Decade
31 January 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sultana Nahar Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University	Abundances and Opacities of the Sun
30 January 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Matthias Bartelmann Heidelberg University, Germany	The internal structure of galaxy clusters
20 January 2014 Monday 15:30 hrs	Herman Marshall MIT, USA	Astrophysics with a Soft X-ray Polarimeter
16 January 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Suresh Doravari California Institute of Technology, USA	An Introduction to LIGO: science, technology and research opportunities
15 January 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Dhrubaditya Mitra NORDITA, Stockholm	New Paradigm of Solar magnetic activity
15 January 2014 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Vineeth Valsan University of Ferrara, Italy	Extending the band of focusing X-ray telescopes beyond 100 keV: motivations and proposed solutions
06 January 2014 Monday 11:30 hrs	Bruce Basset SAAO, South Africa	Rise of the Machines: Machine Learning and Prospects for the Future of Empirical Astrophysics
03 January 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Monique Pick Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France	Contribution of solar and heliospheric radio observations on our understanding of CMEs and transient events
18 December 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Harry van der Laan Leiden University and University of Utrecht	The development of post-WWII Astronomy in Europe
17 December 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Chiranjib Konar Institute of Astronomy Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	A new era of radio galaxy physics: theory vs. observations
12 December 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Jeremie Lasue Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology, Toulouse, France	Exploring Mars with ChemCam on-board Mars Science Laboratory
02 December 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	L. V. E. Koopmans Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen	Constraints on Dark Matter in Galaxies from Strong Gravitational Lensing
26 November 2013 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Aveek Sarkar IISER, Kolkata	Flux-Tube Texture of the Solar Wind: simulating plasma beta scaling of anisotropic magnetic field fluctuations
21 November 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Tobias C. Hinse Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute	Detection & dynamical aspects of extrasolar circumbinary companions
13 November 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	P. Venkatakrishnan Udaipur Solar Observatory	On net currents in Sunspots
13 November 2013 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Kandaswamy Subramanian IUCAA, Pune	Probing the universe using high redshift galaxies
23 September 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	Ananta C. Pradhan TIFR, Mumbai	A stellar Population Synthesis Model for the Study of Ultraviolet Star Counts of the Galaxy
23 September 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	Ananta C. Pradhan TIFR, Mumbai	A stellar Population Synthesis Model for the Study of Ultraviolet Star Counts of the Galaxy
04 September 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Georges Meylan Laboratoire d`astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	Gravitational Lensing: an Astrophysical Tool
07 August 2013 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Paul J. Wiita The college of New Jersey, USA	Using Kepler to Investigate AGN Variability
06 August 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Yuri Shchekinov Southern Federal University, Russia	Cosmological aspects of habitability
01 August 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Solai Jeyakumar Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico	Outflows in radio sources: Numerical simulations of jet cloud interaction
30 July 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Henning Flaecher University of Bristol, UK	Searches for Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN
18 July 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Soumen Basak Centre d`Etudes de SACLAY, France	A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 9-year data
03 July 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Girija Rajaram CSRE,IIT Bombay	Solar-terrestrial magnetic field interactions and their consequences
02 July 2013 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Andrew Cole School of Mathematics & Physics University of Tasmania, Australia	The Small Magellanic Cloud in space and time
20 June 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Bijaya Kumar Sahoo Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	Possibility of temporal variation of the fine-structure constant
19 June 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Koshy George Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,The Netherlands	Recent star formation in cluster early-type galaxies
30 May 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	S. Sumangala Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Past Student	Spectroscopic Studies of RV Tau and Related Objects
28 May 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Kameswara Rao N. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	The Odd Ball R CorBor - DY Centauri
20 May 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	M. Bianda Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno, IRSOL, Switzerland	IRSOL Locarno and the collaboration with IIA
17 May 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	K. Nagaraju MaxPlanck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany	Fast Solar Polarimeter: Concept and laboratory test results
13 May 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Pankaj Agrawal Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Searching the Missing Piece in the Standard Model - the Higgs Boson
19 April 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Surajit Paul IUCAA, Pune	Blast wave like evolution of energy and galaxy cluster medium
25 March 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Subhadeep De National Physical Laboratory, Delhi	Experiments with Mixtures of Bose-Condensed Rubidium and Degenerate Fermionic Lithium
22 March 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Michael Dopita Australian National University, Australia	Non-thermal Electron Distributions in HII regions?
18 March 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	Michael Dopita Australian National University, Australia	Close Encounters and Gas Stripping in Galaxies
08 March 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Rodney Delgado Serrano Panama Univ Astronomical Observatory	The Evolution of the Hubble Sequence: Morpho-Kinematics of Distance Galaxies
05 March 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	L. S. Anusha Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany	Advanced Numerical Methods For Polarized Line Formation Theory.
27 February 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Bindusar Sahoo National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam	Topologically massive higher-spin gravity
21 February 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sravani Vaddi Rochester Institute of Technology	Feedback in the local universe: The Relation between star formation and AGN activity in typical elliptical galaxies
15 February 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Shriharsh Tendulkar Caltech	Magnetars: Kinematics, ages and birth places
14 February 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shriharsh Tendulkar Caltech	Robo-AO: Automated Adaptive Optics for Small Telescopes
14 February 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	A K Sen Assam University, Silchar	Photopolarimetric Observations of some recent comets
13 February 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics	Very High Energy Gamma Ray astronomy : A tool to study the very high energy universe
28 January 2013 Monday 11:30 hrs	Giono Gabriel University of Lyon, France	Segmentation of Coronal Features to Understand EUV & UV Irradiance Variability
15 January 2013 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	JinLin Han National Astronomical Observatories , Beijing, China	Galaxy clusters as tracers of cosmic web
11 January 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Rahul Shetty University of Heidelberg, Germany	A non-universal Kennicutt-Schmidt relationship and star formation self-regulation
10 January 2013 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Pratika Dayal Royal Observatory, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	The earliest galaxies: probing cosmic dawn
09 January 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Debanjan Bose Inter-university Institute for High Energies (IIHE), Brussel, Belgium	Study of AGN and GRBs in Very High Energy Regime
09 January 2013 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Manoj Puravankara Department of Physics & Astronomy , University of Rochester , USA	Infrared Spectroscopy of Protostars with Spitzer and Herschel: Probing the earliest stages of stellar birth
08 January 2013 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Girjesh Gupta Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany	Nature of propagating disturbances in the polar coronal hole
04 January 2013 Friday 15:30 hrs	Akondi Vyas School of Physics Science Centre - North Belfield Dublin 4	Detecting lower order aberrations: an analysis of Hartmann Shack, curvature and confocal wavefront sensors
04 January 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	Bidya Binay Karak Department Of Physics , Indian Institute Of Science , Bangalore	Theoretical study of the solar magnetic cycle and its irregularities
02 January 2013 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	K. Nomoto Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study (TODIAS), The University of Tokyo	Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
31 December 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Shri Kulkarni Caltech, USA	ULTRASAT: An Ultra-Violet Time Domain Explorer
27 December 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Siddharth Savyasachi Malu School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore	A Window into the early history of the Universe
30 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	C. Muthumariappan Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	On the nature of IRAS 18333-2357: a very rare and peculiar PN located in the Globular cluster M22
29 November 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Natalie Batalha San Jose State University, USA	Catching Shadows: Kepler
19 November 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Seshadri T.R. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi	Constraining Primordial Magnetic Fields using Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
16 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Emission Modes of Solar Type I Radio Bursts
15 November 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shrikanth G. Kanekal NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center	The dynamics of Relativistic Electrons in the Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts: current understanding and future prospects
09 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Kanak Saha Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany	Secular evolution and structure of disk galaxies: impact of dark matter halos
02 November 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Petrus C. Martens Physics and Computer Science Departments, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA	Computer Vision for Solar Physics
31 October 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Ashok K. Singal Physical Research laboratory, Ahmedabad	Our large peculiar motion in the universe determined from the radio sky brightness anisotropy at 1.4 GHz
12 October 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Subinoy Das Institute for Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Aachen, Germany	Mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and their possible connection to the neutrino
27 September 2012 Thursday 11:30 hrs	L. N. Hazra Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata	Selected Topics from Contemporary Research in Applied Optics
17 August 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Peeyush Prasad University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Amsterdam-ASTRON Radio Transients Facility and Analysis Center, and the search for Radio transients using LOFAR
16 August 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sandeep Gautam Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	Mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates
27 July 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Bispectral Analysis of a Langmuir Wave Packets Associated with Solar Type III Radio Bursts
25 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Debi Prasad Choudhary California State University, Northridge, USA	The Nature of Sunspot Phenomena - An Observer's View
24 July 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Marcel Goossens Center for Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Belgium	Coronal Seismology Using Standing and Propagating MHD Waves
24 July 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	A. Bemporad INAF-Turin Astrophysical Observatory, Turin, Italy	Solar mass ejections: what we learnt from coronal spectroscopy
23 July 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Jorg Buchner Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and Georg August University Gottingen, Germany	Magnetic energy release in the laboratory and in astrophysics, the Sun and other stars
13 July 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Cristina H. Mandrini Instituto de Astronomia y Fi�sica del Espacio, Universidad de Buenos Aires	Combined quantitative study of CMEs - ICMEs
12 July 2012 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Marian Karlicky Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	PLASMA PROCESSES IN THE ELECTRON BEAM-RETURN CURRENT SYSTEM OF SOLAR FLARES
11 July 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Stanislav Gunar Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	Complex modelling of fine structures of the solar quiescent prominences
11 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Marian Karlicky Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	CASCADING MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN SOLAR FLARES
10 July 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Petr Heinzel Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic	Radiative relaxation in solar prominences
04 July 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Bhimsen Shivamoggi Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando. USA	Electron MHD (EMHD) Turbulence
19 June 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	Shalima P. IUCAA, Pune	Mid-IR counterparts of X-ray sources in NGC1399
28 May 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Vikram Rana Caltech	The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
25 May 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Formerly at IIA	Ragoonatha Chary and his Astronomy at Madras Observatroy
23 May 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Jasjeet Singh Bagla IISER, Mohali	Forming Galaxies in Dark Matter Haloes
23 April 2012 Monday 15:30 hrs	Ananda Hota NCRA-TIFR, Pune	Panchromatic Snapshots of Galaxy Evolution: Infall, Merger and Feedback
20 April 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Gert de Geyter Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Ghent, Belgium	Radiative Transfer Simulations: Fitting and Applications
30 March 2012 Friday 11:30 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of Li-rich K Giants
21 March 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Sudhakar Panda Harish-Chandra Research Institute	Inflation and Quintessence from String theory
14 March 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Per Kjaergaard Rasmussen Copenhagen University	The SONG Project
13 March 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Smitha Subramanian Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Stellar Populations in the Magellanic Clouds
24 February 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sumati Surya Raman Research Institute	Phenomenology from Quantum Gravity -- a brief introduction to causal set theory
22 February 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Koji Kawabata Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University	Transient Object Studies with Hiroshima `Kanata` 1.5-m Telescope
17 February 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Keiichi Maeda Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institute for Advanced Studies (TODIAS), University of Tokyo	Studying nearby Type Ia Supernovae for future cosmological applications
08 February 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Preeti Kharb Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA	A Multi-wavelength, Multi-scale Study of Jets in Radio-Powerful AGNs: Clues to Jet formation and Challenges to Unification
07 February 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Arnold Hanslmeier Institut fur Physik, Universitat Graz, Austria	Solar convection in the ascending solar activity phase
25 January 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	M. B. Roopashree Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Wavefront correction using MEMS deformable mirror
25 January 2012 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Amit Shukla Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multiwavelength studies of selected TeV Blazars
24 January 2012 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Princeton University, USA	The Rapidly Rotating Solar Convection Zone
20 January 2012 Friday 11:30 hrs	Steven Tomczyk High Altitude Observatory/NCAR	Observation of Alfven waves in the Solar Corona
09 January 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Trinh X. Thuan University of Virginia	Blue Compact Dwarf and Green Pea Galaxies: Laboratories for star formation studies in a nearly primordial environment
04 January 2012 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Kartik Sheth NRAO	ALMA: A Revolutionary Telescope For Transformational Science, Technology and Computing
02 January 2012 Monday 11:30 hrs	Luca Baiotti Osaka university, Japan	Binary neutron-star simulations and short gamma-ray bursts
19 December 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Dominik Utz Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria	Dynamics of magnetic bright points as observed by Hinode/SOT
16 December 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Birgit Lemmerer IGAM, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria	Segmentation Algorithms applied to Data from Simulations and Observations - First Results and Outlook
12 December 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	Manjari Bagchi West Virginia University	What do the orbital and stellar properties of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters tell us ?
05 December 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	Neha Choksi Project 88, Mumbai	A talk about an artist's work and a materially bound search for absence
24 November 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shiv Sethi RRI, Bangalore	Primordial magnetic fields in cosmological context
09 November 2011 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Y Schekinov South-Federal University, Rostov, Russia	Mixing of metals in low-surface brightness galaxies and all that
08 November 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	G. Thejappa Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Emission Patterns of Solar Type III Radio Bursts: Stereoscopic Observations
01 November 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Gaspar Bakos Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University	Searching for planets with HATNet and HATSouth
10 October 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Formerly with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Megalithic stone alignments: A fast disappearing astronomical heritage
29 September 2011 Thursday 11:30 hrs	Paramita Barai Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA	Investigating the Cosmological Impact of Expanding Radio Galaxies on Large-Scales
13 September 2011 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Varun Bhalerao Caltech, USA	Weighing in on Neutron Stars
12 September 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Varun Bhalerao Caltech, USA	NuSTAR: Unveiling the Hard X-ray Universe
26 August 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Sujit Sarkar Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore	Perfect Entanglement Transport in Quantum Spin Chain Systems
25 August 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Arunima Banerjee Indian Institute of Science	Vertical Structure of Disk Galaxies and their Dark Matter Halos
24 August 2011 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Sridharan Rengaswamy European Southern Observatory, Chile	The Very Large Telescope Interferometer
18 August 2011 Thursday 10:00 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Studies of Young Stellar Objects and Their Evironment
17 August 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	L. N. Hazra Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta	Optical System Design: A prophylactic strategy for Global synthesis
02 August 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Suchetana Chatterjee Yale University, USA	Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
01 August 2011 Monday 16:00 hrs	Meridith Rawls New Mexico State University, USA	Light Curve Solutions of Eclipsing Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud
01 August 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Brandon Patel Rutgers University, USA	SN2010a: is it a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova?
01 August 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Ritaban Chatterjee Yale University, USA	The AGN/X-Ray Binary Connection
21 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Durgesh Tripathi IUCAA, Pune	Heating of Solar Active Regions
14 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Aruna Goswami Indian Institute of Astrophysics	HE 1015-2050: Discovery of a hydrogen-deficient carbon star at high Galactic latitude
11 July 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Kinsuk Acharyya S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata	How Molecules form in the Star Forming Regions ?
07 July 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Shiva Kumar, M. Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris	A study of magnetic helicity in forced and decaying 3D-MHD turbulence
06 July 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Kanak Saha Humboldt fellow, MPE, Garching, Germany	Dynamical evolution of a low mass classical bulge in barred galaxies
23 June 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Anusha L.S. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Polarized line formation in multi-dimensional media with partial frequency redistribution
22 June 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	N.M. Ashok PRL, Ahmedabad	Infrared Studies of Recent Outbursts of Recurrent Novae
20 June 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Jens Kauffmann Jet Propulsion Laboratory	How the structure of Dense Cores and Molecular Clouds influences the Formation of Stars
17 June 2011 Friday 11:30 hrs	Meredith Rawls New Mexico State University, Las Cruces	Refined Neutron Star Mass Determinations for Six Eclipsing X-Ray Pulsar Binaries
17 June 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	Brandon Patel Rutgers University, USA	Analysis of a State Changing Supersoft X-ray Source in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
14 June 2011 Tuesday 12:20 hrs	H. D. Supriya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of Novae rate in Local Group Galaxies
14 June 2011 Tuesday 11:40 hrs	K. Sowmya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The planetary nebula associated with the classical nova V458 Vul
14 June 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	C. R. Sangeetha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Development of Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator
06 May 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	V. Ramesh Kumar Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	Soliton and its dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates
04 May 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Sanhita Joshi NCRA, PUNE	The first polarization maps with the GMRT
28 April 2011 Thursday 11:00 hrs	A. B. Sudhakara Reddy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Observational aspects of Galaxy formation theory
11 April 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Ananda Hota Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics,Academia Sinica,Taipei,Taiwan	Panchromatic Snapshots of Galaxy Evolution: Infall, Merger and Feedback Processes
28 March 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Phani Murali Krishna R Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune	High Performance Computing (HPC) and its Applications in Atmospheric Sciences and Physics
28 March 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Priyam Das Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata	Investigation of various Nonlinear Excitations of Bose-Einstein Condensates
18 March 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Isolating QSO types with the combined GALEX-SDSS database
16 March 2011 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	John Hutchings Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	An overview of plans to upgrade the CFHT to 10m
08 March 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Rajesh Gopal Bose Institute, Kolkata	Magnetic field effects in galaxy clusters
17 February 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Vijay Kapur IGNOU, NEW DELHI	The Role of the Administrative Bureaucracy in Promoting Technology and Scientific Research - A Reality Check in the Indian Context
10 February 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Buckyballs's bounce to R Coronae Borealis stars
01 February 2011 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Almudena Alonso-Herrero Centro de Astrobiologia, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain	Testing the Unified Model of AGN: Fitting the IR emission of Seyfert
28 January 2011 Friday 11:00 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Princeton University, Princeton, USA	Seismic constraints on global solar convection
27 January 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	G. Thejappa University of Maryland & NASA/GSFC, USA	Some Recent Results from STEREO
24 January 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	S. Turck-Chi�ze SAp/IRFU/CEA	A global view of the solar magnetism
24 January 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Donald M. Hassler Southwest Research Institute, Colorado, USA	Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) on the Solar Orbiter Mission
10 January 2011 Monday 15:30 hrs	Shri Kulkarni California Institute of Technology	Next Generation Transient Facility
07 January 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	H. Frisch Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France	The Hanle effect: (i) Action of a random Markovian magnetic field, (ii) A scattering expansion method of solution
03 January 2011 Monday 11:00 hrs	Masayuki Yamanaka Hiroshima University	Observational study of the extremely luminous Type Ia SN 2009dc
30 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Nozomu Tominaga Konan University, Japan	Shock breakouts of Type II plateau supernovae and future survey plans
16 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Poonam Chandra Royal Military College, Canada	Cosmological transient objects
15 December 2010 Wednesday 15:00 hrs	G. Sindhuja Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Temporal variations in the Solar chromosphere-Ca K line profiles
14 December 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	S. Sumangala Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Chemical Compositions of a sample of post-AGB stars
02 December 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	P. K. Mukherjee Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University & Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal	Spectroscopy of atoms under liquid helium
25 November 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Ram Ajor Maurya Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad	SEISMIC STUDY OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS USING RING DIAGRAMS
28 October 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Rohan Eugene Louis Udaipur Solar Observatory	Achieving high spatial resolution using Adaptive Optics at the Udaipur Solar Observatory
28 October 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	P. Ramya Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Study of stellar streams in the Galaxy
22 October 2010 Friday 15:30 hrs	Neeharika Sinha Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An implication of recent prolonged solar minimum through Almahata Sitta meteorite fall
07 October 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Dharam Vir Lal Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA	Constraining the nature of X-shaped radio galaxies - new insights from radio and X-ray data
04 October 2010 Monday 15:00 hrs	B.P. Hema Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Clues to the origin of RCB stars
04 October 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	G. Indu Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Recent star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
02 September 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Arya Dhar Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Novel Quantum Phases in ultracold atoms in optical superlattices
30 August 2010 Monday 11:30 hrs	Prashanth Mohan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Models for observational signatures of black holes
26 August 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jayesh Bhatt Brunel University, UK	Molecular simulations and internal dynamical properties of particulate systems
19 August 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	K.B. Ramesh Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Coronal activity and sunspots � solar cycle perspective
30 July 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	PAUL J. WIITA The College of New Jersey, USA	Testing Active Galactic Nuclei Unification via Quasar Optical Spectra and Radio Morphologies
29 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Alok C. Gupta ARIES, Nainital	Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in Blazars on Diverse Time Scales
28 July 2010 Wednesday 16:30 hrs	Gordon MacDonald University of California-Northridge	Studies of Waves in Sunspots Using Spectropolarimetric and Imaging Observations
28 July 2010 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Kristopher Vorren University of North Carolina	Probing of solar core rotation
28 July 2010 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Megan Force University of Vermont	Infrared and Optical Observations of R Corona Borealis Stars
28 July 2010 Wednesday 15:00 hrs	Christene Lynch University of Iowa	Optical Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN 2006be, a Type IIP Supernova
23 July 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel Aviv University, Israel	The fascinating world of ring galaxies
13 July 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	M.B. Roopashree Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multilayered temporally evolving phase screens based on statistical interpolation
08 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jean-Pierre ROZELOT Nice University, France	A story of the solar oblateness: from Princeton, 1966 to future space missions
06 July 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Survey for Li-rich K giants
01 July 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Georgeta Maris Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy, Romania	Specific Features of the High Speed Streams in Solar Wind during Solar Cycle 23
01 July 2010 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Mansi Kasliwal California Institute of Technology	The Palomar Transient Factory
30 June 2010 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Megan Force University of Vermont	SUBPULSE MODULATION AND MODING OF THE FIVE-COMPONENT PULSAR B1737+13
30 June 2010 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Kristopher Vorren University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	CAROLINA PHYSICS
29 June 2010 Tuesday 14:30 hrs	Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Oscillations and heating of the Solar Chromosphere at the sites of fine scale features as seen with Hinode/SOT and SoHO/MDI
29 June 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Smitha H.N. Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Analysis of the polarimetric data of Ca 4227 line
28 June 2010 Monday 11:30 hrs	Gordon MacDonald University of California-Northridge	FLOWS IN THE MAGNETIZED REGIONS NEAR SUNSPOTS
28 June 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	Christene Lynch University of Iowa	FIRST CALCULATIONS OF GROWTH RATES FOR SATURN KILOMETRIC RADIATION AS MEASURED BY CASSINI
24 June 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	C.S. Stalin Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Quasars in the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey
22 June 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	A. Vyas Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Thresholded Zernike reconstructor and dither based sensor towards improved wavefront reconstruction in adaptive optics systems
18 June 2010 Friday 11:00 hrs	Sundar Srinivasan Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France	The GRAMS AGB Models: Calculating the Mass-Loss Return to the LMC from SED fits to SAGE Data
03 June 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Sumedh V. Anathpindika Indian Institute of Astrophysics	A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE FORMATION OF PRESTELLAR CORES
25 May 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	A.C. Pradhan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	FAR ULTRAVIOLET DIFFUSE EMISSION FROM THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
18 May 2010 Tuesday 11:00 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Institute of Astrophysics	VARIABLE CIRCUMSTELLAR ACTIVITIES OF HERBIG Ae STAR HD 38238
17 May 2010 Monday 11:00 hrs	Pravabati Chingangbam Sejong University, South Korea	Search for primordial non-Gaussian signals in the CMB
24 March 2010 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Hari Dass Indian Institute of Science	CPU and GPU Computing
25 February 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Atul Deep Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands	Use of AO PSF Models to Study Resolved Stellar Populations
18 January 2010 Monday 15:30 hrs	Vikram Soni Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi	Magnetars Incognito: Magnetars that have not been Recognized
17 December 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Durgesh Tripathi University of Cambridge, U.K.	Source Region Magnetic Configuration in CMEs and their Initiation
17 December 2009 Thursday 11:00 hrs	N. Gopalswamy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA	Some Recent Findings on Interplanetary Shocks Driven by Coronal Mass Ejections
10 December 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	J Vivekanandan National Center for Atmospheric Research, , USA	Remote Sensing of Cloud Microphysics, Aerosols, and Water Vapor Using Microwave Radiometers and Lidars
05 November 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	C H Ishwara-Chandra National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, & Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	A Deep Search for High-redshift Radio Galaxies
29 October 2009 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Andrea Borch Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Direct NBODY Simulation
16 September 2009 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Celine Joseph Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore	On the Development of 10.5 micron Quantum-well Infrared Photo-detector for Astronomical Applications
24 August 2009 Monday 11:30 hrs	J�rgen Schmitt Hamburger Sternwarte, Hamburg, Germany	A High-resolution Stellar Spectrograph for the NLST
13 August 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Richard Britto Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAGAR Telescope System in the Himalayas
31 July 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Anvesh Vagiri Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad	Accessing FITS Files over the Internet
23 July 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Rekhesh Mohan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An Introduction to High-performance Computing using Graphics Processors
02 July 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Noah Brosch Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel	Grey extinction in the Milky Way
11 June 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d�Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Differential Gravitational Lensing to Unveil Molecular Structures around High Redshift AGN
14 May 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Amit Pathak School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK	Polycyclic Hydrocarbons in Space
30 March 2009 Monday 16:00 hrs	Mukul Kundu University of Maryland, College Park, USA	Recent Progress in Solar Radio Physics in Microwaves
05 February 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Wolfgang Kalkofen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	The Structure of the Sun, from the Deep Interior to the Outer Layers: What we believe we know about it
29 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Jaroslaw Kijak Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona G�ra, Poland	Turn-over in Pulsar Radio Spectra
07 January 2009 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Vikram Soni National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi	A Solution to the Puzzle of Magnetars
17 December 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Bhimsen Shivamoggi University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA	Driven Magnetic Field Reconnection in Hall MHD
27 November 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sami Dib Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay, France	Formation and Properties of Dense Cores in Molecular Clouds
24 November 2008 Monday 11:30 hrs	C. S. Stalin Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Estimation of H₀ through Monitoring of Lensed Quasars
21 November 2008 Friday 11:30 hrs	Tanya A. Ryabchikova Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	The Vienna Atomic Line Database and its use in Stellar Atmosphere Structure and Abundance Analysis
20 November 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Mikhail E. Sachkov Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	The World Space Observatory: An Ultraviolet Mission for the Next Decade
19 November 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Tanya A. Ryabchikova Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Chemical Structure of the Atmospheres of Ap Stars
31 October 2008 Friday 11:30 hrs	Mausumi Dikpati National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA	Simulating Solar Climate: Opportunities and Challenges
08 October 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Tapas K Das Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Astrophysical Accretion as an Analogue Gravity Phenomenon
03 October 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Patrick McCarthy Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA	The Giant Magellan Telescope Project
18 September 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Manas Mukherjee Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata	Particle Trap: A Universal Tool for Atomic and Molecular Physics Experiments
28 August 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	What is Graphite? Its Formation, Morphology and Extinction
01 August 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Ashish Mahabal California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	Transient Detection and Classification
17 July 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Benjamin Trakhtenbrot Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel	Measuring the Mass and Accretion-rate of Super-Massive Black Holes in AGN through Cosmic Epochs
16 July 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	S. P. Bagare Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Status Report of NLST
11 July 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Bidhan Saha Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, USA	Slow Ion-Molecule Collisions: Molecular State Treatment
07 July 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Claudio Ricci Data Centre for Astrophysics, Geneva University, Switzerland	The INTEGRAL View on AGN
26 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Chiranjib Sur Ohio State University, Columbus, USA	Fe K-lines : Applications to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy
19 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	A. R. Ganesan Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai	Optical Wavefront Sensing�and Control for Adaptive Optics Applications
12 June 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Ritaban Chatterjee Boston University, Boston, USA	Correlated Multi-frequency Time Variability in the Blazar 3C 279
15 May 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Bruce Fegley Washington University, St. Louis, USA	Atmospheric Chemistry during the Accretion of Earth-like Exoplanets
10 April 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Dirk Soltau Kiepenheuer-Institut f�r Sonnenphysik ,Freiburg, Germany	Adaptive Optics at the German Solar Telescopes on Tenerife
24 March 2008 Monday 12:00 hrs	Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA	Rayleigh Scattering System for Palomar 60-inch
06 March 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Anand Narayanan Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA	The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Systems
21 February 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Yu-Qing Lou Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Magnetohydro dynamic Shock Flows in Clusters of Galaxies
20 February 2008 Wednesday 04:00 hrs	Oskar Steiner Kiepenheuer-Institut fuer Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany	The Structure of the Solar Internetwork Magnetic Field: Comparison of Numerical Simulations with Hinode Observations
18 February 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Colin Cunningham Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK	The European Extremely Large Telescope
08 February 2008 Friday 04:00 hrs	Gregg Hallinan National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland	Looking for a Pulse: The Search for Radio Emission from Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
31 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Bruce Hrivnak Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, USA	Mulitiwavelength Studies of Proto-planetary Nebulae
25 January 2008 Friday 11:00 hrs	Barnali Chakrabarty Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata	Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Quantum Many-body Approach
24 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Shravan Hanasoge Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Theoretical Studies of Wave Interactions in the Sun
18 January 2008 Friday 11:00 hrs	Bharat Kumar Yerra Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Lithium-rich K Giants
14 January 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	David Schade & S�verin Gaudet Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada	Multiwavelength Data at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
10 January 2008 Thursday 04:00 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Global Solar and Stellar Coronal Seismology
09 January 2008 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Heath Jones Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, Australia	The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Initial Results and Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution
03 January 2008 Thursday 12:00 hrs	Shashi M. Kanbur State Univerisity of New York, Oswego, USA	The Non-linear Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation: Implications for H₀ and Cepheid Physics
03 January 2008 Thursday 10:30 hrs	Rumpa Choudhury Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Young Stellar Objects and their Environment
03 December 2007 Monday 11:00 hrs	M. Sampoorna Indian Insitute of Astrophysics	Effects of Magnetic Turbulence and Scattering on Line Polarization
15 November 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sivarani Thirupathi Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA	Relics from the Dawn of Time: Abundance patterns of Extreme Metal Poor Stars of the Galaxy
25 October 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	C. Muthumariappan Indian Institute of Astrophysics	An Investigation of Dust in the Reflection Nebula OH231.8 + 4.2 using Mid-IR Imaging
11 October 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Annamaneni Peraiah formerly Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Radiative Transfer on X-Y Geometry
03 October 2007 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Prateek Sharma University of California, Berkeley, USA	Transport and Heating in Low Luminosity Accretion Flows
27 September 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Kanak Saha Joint Astronomy Programme, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Dynamics of Warps in Spiral Galaxies
12 September 2007 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	N. Kameswara Rao Indian Institute of Astrophysics	R Coronae Borealis Stars - Their Evolutionary Status and Dust Production : An Observational Approach
24 August 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Thejappa Golla Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA	Observations of Low Frequency Magnetic Field Fluctuations Near the Moon
23 August 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	T.N. Rengarajan formerly Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Compact HII Regions and Massive Star Formation
13 August 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Ranjan Vasudevan Institute of Astronomy Cambridge, UK	Piecing Together the X-ray Background: the Bolometric Output from AGN
13 July 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sanjaya Paudel Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Spin-vector Orientation of Galaxies in Seven Abell Clusters of BM Type II
09 July 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Nagaraj Naidu UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, U.K.	Low Light Level CCDs: Performance and Issues
21 June 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Sam Barden Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, Australia	On-going and Future Instrumentation Efforts at the Anglo-Australian Observatory
14 June 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Jayant Kumar Pendharkar Osmania University, Hyderabad	Anticorrelated Hard X-ray Time Lags in Galactic Blackhole Sources - Evidence for Truncated Accretion Disk Models
05 April 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Subharthi Ray Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Strange Quark Stars: From Theory to their Current Standings
12 March 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Humeshkar Nemala University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA	HII Regions
01 March 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Achamveedu Gopakumar Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany	Inspiral Dynamics of Compact Binaries: its Applications and Implications
26 February 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Dan McKenzie Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK	The Internal Structure of Venus and Mars from Satellite Tracking
05 February 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Subhashis Roy ASTRON, The Netherlands	Recent Low-frequency Studies near the Galactic Centre
01 February 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	N. Gopalswamy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center USA	Halo Coronal Mass Ejections and their Geoeffectiveness
12 January 2007 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sydney Barnes Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, USA	Ages for Illustrative Field Stars using Gyrochronology
11 January 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Fr�d�ric Courbin Ecol� Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Quasar time delays, Ho and Dark Matter
11 January 2007 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Mina Koleva Observatoire de Lyon, France	Analysis of Stellar Populations: New Tools, New
10 January 2007 Wednesday 16:00 hrs	Dilip Ghosh Roy University of Utah, USA	Multiple and Multi-centred Scattering in Bounded and Unbounded Media
10 January 2007 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Philippe Prugniel Observatoire de Lyon, France	Diffuse Elliptical galaxies A Rosette stone to Understand the Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters?
07 December 2006 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Yogesh Wadadekar Princeton University, USA	Star-forming galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field parallels
22 November 2006 Wednesday 16:30 hrs	H. M. Antia Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Temporal Variations of Solar Rotation during Solar Cycle 23
02 November 2006 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Satoshi Yamamoto University of Tokyo, Japan	Chemical Evolution of Molecular Clouds
26 September 2006 Tuesday 00:00 hrs	Abhishek Kumar Srivastava Banares Hindu University, Varanasi	On the Role of MHD Waves in Solar Wind Source Region
31 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	David Lambert Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA	The Giant Magellan Telescope
24 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Pratik Majumdar Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Germany	Observation of VHE Gamma Ray Sources with the MAGIC Telescope
10 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Sawant H.S BDA Team -Brazilian National Space Research Institute - INPE Brazil	Status of the development of the Brazilian Decimetric Array and other activities of the solar physics Group at INPE
03 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Margarita Safonova Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Detection of Intermediate-mass Black Holes from Microlensing in Globular Clusters
02 August 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Palahalli R. Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Multi-wavelength Studies of the Galactic Centre
28 July 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Shrinivas R. Kulkarni California Institute of Technology,	An Explosion of Cosmic Explosions
13 July 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Nimisha Kantharia National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune	GMRT Observations of Galaxy Group Holmberg 124: Signatures of Tidal Interaction and Ram Pressure Stripping
10 July 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Nozomu Tominaga Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Japan	Core-Collapse Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: Type Ib SN2005bf and Type Ic SN2006aj/GRB060218
07 July 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Koji S. Kawabata Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University, Japan	Spectropolarimetric and Spectroscopic studies of Circumstellar Environments of Explosive stars, and the Hiroshima 1.5-m Telescope Project
06 July 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Mamoru Doi Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Japan	Distant SN Surveys for Cosmological Expansion Measurements using SUBARU
03 July 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Nagaraja Naidu UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK	Optical and Near-Infrared Instrumentation at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre
29 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Indranil Chattopadhyay Chungnam National University, South Korea	Relativisitic Numerical Hydrodynamics and Equation of State
29 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Abhishek Rawat Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Unravelling the morphologies of Luminous Compact Galaxies using the HST/ACS GOODS survey
15 June 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Dipanjan Mitra National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	PSR B0329+54 - A Pulsar with Unique Emission Properties
14 June 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Pavan Chakraborty Assam University, Silchar	Exposure Time Calculator for IFOSC and Sky Background Estimation
02 June 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Bhas Bapat Laboratory Astrophysics Group, Physical Research Laboratory	Photo Triple Ionization of CO2
21 April 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Tomotsugu Goto Department of Infrared Astrophysics, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan	The Origin of E+A (post-starburst) Galaxies
12 April 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Malaya Kumar Nayak Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Theoretical Investigation of Relativistic Effects in Heavy Atoms and Polar Molecules Thesis Seminar
06 April 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Shashi Bhushan Pandey Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain	Optical observations of GRB afterglows
16 March 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Kavan Ratnatunga Carnegie-Mellon University, USA	Gravitational Lensing Studies with the Hubble Space Telescope
06 March 2006 Monday 00:00 hrs	Meetu Sethi Luthra	Coasting Cosmology: An Alternative to the Big Bang
01 March 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Luc Damc Service dAcronomie du CNRS, FRANCE	The Ultimate High Resolution View of the Sun: the SOLARNET Mission
24 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Parthasarathi Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	The Mysterious Warmth of Blackholes
23 February 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Uma Vijh Space Telescope Science Institute, USA	Photoluminescence by Interstellar Dust and a Look at the Dust Characteristics in the LMC using the Sptizer Space Telescope
03 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Denis J. Sullivan Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand	Asteroseismology with Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
03 February 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	B.Ananthanarayan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Low Energy Interactions at High Precision
20 January 2006 Friday 00:00 hrs	Richard Conn Henry The John Hopkins University	Physics and Astronomy
19 January 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	John Hearnshaw Mt John University Observatory	Measuring Precise Radial Velocities with the Hercules Spectrograph at Mt John University Observatory
18 January 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	John Hearnshaw Mt John University Observatory	The MOA 1.8-m alt-az Wide-field Survey Telescope at Mt John and the MOA Microlensing Project
16 January 2006 Monday 16:00 hrs	Sabine Kram CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Synergy between Colliders and Cosmology

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Special Lectures

Date	Speaker	Title
10 August 2016 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	Rajaram Nityananda Azim Premji University, Bangalore	FOUNDER
05 April 2016 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	Stanley E. Whitcomb LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	Bicentennial Commemorative Public Lecture: The long quest for LIGO�s discovery of gravitational waves from a binary black hole
01 March 2016 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Jacques Blamont CNES, France	New Space and Planetary Exploration? Would India be involved?
15 February 2016 Monday 15:30 hrs	B. N. Karkera NITK Suratkal; NIAS; KGRCS; former BARC; CSO.	Ocean Containment of Nuclear Power Farms
27 October 2015 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	G. Srinivasan IIA, Bangalore	Einstein's quest for a Theory of Relativity
06 October 2015 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	C. V. Vishveshwara Former Senior Professor, IIA; Emeritus Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore	Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: The First Hundred Years
14 August 2015 Friday 15:30 hrs	Professor S.M.Chitre	IIA Founder's Day Lecture-2015: "Dr Vainu Bappu's Legacy to Solar Astronomy in India"
19 May 2015 Tuesday 16:00 hrs	D. D. Sarma IISc, Bangalore	Bicentennial Commemorative Public Lecture: Attraction of Magnetism
05 March 2015 Thursday 16:30 hrs	Ramesh Narayan Harvard University	Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: Black Hole Spin and Relativistic Jets
22 January 2015 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Srinivasan Raghavan CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore	GaN and the 2014 Physics Nobel
28 November 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	G. Rajasekaran IMSC, Chennai	LECTURE 3: Introduction to Elementary particles, Physics of Higgs boson, Solar and cosmological neutrino, Dark matter, Future directions in particle physics
28 November 2014 Friday 10:30 hrs	G. Rajasekaran IMSC, Chennai	LECTURE 2: Introduction to Elementary particles, Physics of Higgs boson, Solar and cosmological neutrino, Dark matter, Future directions in particle physics
27 November 2014 Thursday 15:45 hrs	G. Rajasekaran IMSC, Chennai	LECTURE 1: Introduction to Elementary particles, Physics of Higgs boson, Solar and cosmological neutrino, Dark matter, Future directions in particle physics
17 September 2014 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	A. P. Balachandran Syracuse University, USA	Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry
14 August 2014 Thursday 11:00 hrs	B. V. Sreekantan National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore	FOUNDER'S DAY LECTURE: Symbiotic Developments in Physics and Astronomy in the 20th Century: Where are they leading us in our search for �Reality�?
15 July 2014 Tuesday 16:00 hrs	Marta Burgay INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Italy	The double pulsar: a unique laboratory to test relativistic gravity
15 July 2014 Tuesday 14:30 hrs	Parampreet Singh Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University	Quantum Journeys Beyond the Big Bang
03 July 2014 Thursday 14:30 hrs	G.Rajasekaran Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Neutrinos and the India-based Neutrino Observatory
13 May 2014 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	N. Gopalswamy Solar Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA	Coronal Mass Ejections, Space Weather, and the State of the Heliosphere during the Weak Cycle 24
13 May 2014 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Johannes Anderson The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denamark	The Evolution of the Milky way Disk: 1974-2014
14 February 2014 Friday 16:00 hrs	Ms. Sithar Dolma, Nova Specialty Hospital,	Lifestyle & Management
10 January 2014 Friday 15:30 hrs	Jocelyn Bell Burnell Vainu Bappu Professor, IIA and University of Oxford	Reflections on the discovery of pulsars
09 December 2013 Monday 17:30 hrs	Ashoke Sen HRI, Allahabad	Bicentennial Commemorative Public Lecture: The search for a unified theory
21 October 2013 Monday 15:30 hrs	B. Ananthanarayan CHEP, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	The discovery of the Higgs Boson and consequences: On the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize work of Englert and Higgs
08 August 2013 Thursday 11:30 hrs	G. Srinivasan Formerly at Raman Research Institute	FOUNDER'S DAY LECTURE: Down Memory Lane - Vainu Bappu's Dreams Revisited
05 July 2013 Friday 16:30 hrs	T. Padmanabhan IUCAA, Pune	Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: Conceptual Conundrums in Cosmology
05 July 2013 Friday 11:30 hrs	T. Padmanabhan IUCAA, Pune	Matters of Gravity
10 August 2012 Friday 11:00 hrs	Anil Kakodkar DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor & former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India	Management of Mega Science Programmes
09 March 2012 Friday 17:30 hrs	N. O. Weiss University of Cambridge	THE CHAOTIC DYNAMO IN THE SUN
31 October 2011 Monday 11:30 hrs	A. Mangalam, G. C. Anupama, Pravabati Chinganbam Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Discussion on 2011 Physics Nobel Prize
30 September 2011 Friday 17:30 hrs	Vidyanand Nanjundiah Indian Institute of Science	The biological roots of altruism
30 September 2011 Friday 17:00 hrs	Laurent Gizon Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany	Seismology of the Sun and Sun-like Stars
15 September 2011 Thursday 00:00 hrs	N. Mukunda Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Truth, Beauty and the meaning of understanding Nature
10 August 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	M. G. K. Menon Formerly Director of TIFR	The Founder of IIA - Vainu Bappu
25 July 2011 Monday 17:00 hrs	Prof. G. S. Agarwal, FRS Noble Foundation Chair and Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.	Quantum Interference between Independent Photons
28 June 2011 Tuesday 18:00 hrs	Deirdre Coffey DIAS, Dublin	Disks and jets in young stars: observations and unsolved problems
08 April 2011 Friday 17:30 hrs	Prof. Mushirul Hasan National Archives of India, New Delhi	Is there a Gandhian Legacy?
16 February 2011 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Jim Burge University of Arizona	Mirror Technology for the Giant Magellan Telescope
13 January 2011 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Arthur I. Miller University College London, UK	Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
11 January 2011 Tuesday 17:00 hrs	Ambrogio Fasoli Ecole Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne, Switzerland	Plasma Physics for Magnetic Fusion Research
12 October 2010 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	C. Sivaram Indian Institute of Astrophysics	2010 Physics Nobel Prize
17 September 2010 Friday 18:30 hrs	Seyed E.Hasnain Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad	TUBERCULOSIS: THE VICIOUS TRIANGLE OF PATHOGEN, HOST AND ENVIRONMENT CONTINUES TO POSE A CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE
17 September 2010 Friday 18:00 hrs	Dirk Soltau Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany	Looking into the fire (The future of solar observation)
10 August 2010 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Professor Govindarajan Padmanaban Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - 560012	Growth of Biotechnology in India
18 February 2010 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Valerie Connaughton National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, USA	Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts
04 November 2009 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	S. M. R. Ansari IUPS, Aligarh	Modern Astronomy in Persian sources
27 August 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	David Lambert University of Texas, Austin, USA	A Half-century of Spectroscopic Astrophysics: Personal Recollections
25 August 2009 Tuesday 16:45 hrs	J�rgen Schmitt Hamburger Sternwarte, Hamburg, Germany	Magnetic Activity of the Sun and the Stars: Insights and Problems
25 August 2009 Tuesday 16:05 hrs	P Balaram Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Reinventing the Research University in India
10 August 2009 Monday 17:00 hrs	Govind Swarup National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune	Experimental Astronomy in India: Some Lessons
19 June 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Vikram Soni National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi	River Floodplains : An Invaluable Natural Storage for Water
23 January 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Anil Pradhan Ohio State University, Columbus, USA	From Astrophysics to Cancer Theranostics via Nanotechnology
15 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	B S Chandrasekhar Walther-Mei�ner-Institut, Garching, Germany	Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six Decades Ago
11 December 2008 Thursday 16:00 hrs	B S Chandrasekhar Walther-Mei�ner-Institut, Garching, Germany	Low Temperature Physics and Physicists Six Decades Ago: POSTPONED
14 November 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Phil Charles South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa	Time Domain Astrophysics with the Southern African Large Telescope
06 October 2008 Monday 16:00 hrs	Tapas K Das Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Black Holes in Your Bathtub
11 August 2008 Monday 11:00 hrs	C.N.R. Rao Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Indian Institute of Science	Doing Science in India: Personal Reflections
30 May 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Roger Blandford Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA	New opportunities with Gravitational Lenses
14 December 2007 Friday 11:30 hrs	Arnold Hanslmeier Karl Franzens Univeristy, Graz, Austria	Sun - the Star we Live With [NOTE CHANGED TIME]
06 August 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Naresh Dadhich Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics	Why Einstein (Had I been born in 1844!) ?
26 July 2007 Thursday 15:00 hrs	A.Vagiswari Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Building and Managing Science Archives: An Overview of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Archives
05 March 2007 Monday 16:00 hrs	Ajit Kembhavi Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune	Virtual Observatory Tools: A Demo
02 March 2007 Friday 17:30 hrs	Obaid Siddiqi National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore	Biology of Learning and Memory
13 February 2007 Tuesday 17:30 hrs	Habib Tanvir Naya Theatre, Bhopal	Contemporary Indian Theatre (Please note that this lecture has been postponed from 12th February)
07 December 2006 Thursday 12:00 hrs	Jean Audouze Institut d`Astrophysique, Paris, France	Science and Societies
13 September 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Nihita Goel Information Systems Development Group, TIFR Mumbai	e-Administration: A Move Towards Paperless Office
10 August 2006 Thursday 00:00 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Astrostatistics II
09 August 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Jogesh Babu Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA	Astrostatistics I
21 June 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Albert Tarantola Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris	Gravimetry, Relativity, and the Global Navigation Satellite Systems

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Past Lecture Courses

Date	Speaker	Title
11 November 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Changbom Park KIAS, South Korea	Topology of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe- II
04 November 2011 Friday 15:30 hrs	Changbom Park KIAS, South Korea	Topology of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe- I
10 June 2009 Wednesday 11:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d�Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Galaxies II
04 June 2009 Thursday 11:00 hrs	Danielle Alloin Service d�Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France	Galaxies I
28 January 2009 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars V
22 January 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars IV
21 January 2009 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars III
19 January 2009 Monday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars II
16 January 2009 Friday 14:30 hrs	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA	Planetary Systems Orbiting Diverse Stars I
09 August 2007 Thursday 11:30 hrs	K. R. Subramanian	Observational Techniques in Radio Astronomy
09 August 2007 Thursday 10:00 hrs	B. E. Reddy	Observational Techniques in Optical Astronomy
08 August 2007 Wednesday 14:30 hrs	C. Sivaram	Cosmology
08 August 2007 Wednesday 11:30 hrs	T. P. Prabhu	Galaxies
08 August 2007 Wednesday 10:00 hrs	H. C. Bhatt	Interstellar Medium
07 August 2007 Tuesday 14:30 hrs	R. T. Gangadhara	Structure and Evolution of Stars II
07 August 2007 Tuesday 11:30 hrs	Aruna Goswami	Structure and Evolution of Stars I
07 August 2007 Tuesday 10:00 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee	The Sun
06 August 2007 Monday 14:30 hrs	Arun Mangalam	Introduction to the Physical Universe-II
06 August 2007 Monday 11:30 hrs	Arun Mangalam	Introduction to the Physical Universe-I
20 September 2006 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	Mike Dopita RSAA, The Australian National University	Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe

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Date	Speaker	Title
02 November 2016 Wednesday 15:30 hrs	Guillermo A. Blanc Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Departamento de Astronom�a, Universidad de Chile	CHILE: THE WORLD CAPITAL OF ASTRONOMY
18 September 2014 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	Nightfall: An Asimov Tribute
06 September 2012 Thursday 15:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	To the Moon and Beyond: A Neil Armstrong Retrospective and Perspective
10 July 2012 Tuesday 15:30 hrs	B. P. Das IIA	God's Particle : What is it and Why is it important?
29 June 2012 Friday 15:30 hrs	Megha Bhatt Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Germany	The GalileoMobile Project
05 June 2012 Tuesday 16:30 hrs	VISHWANATH P. R. Indian Institute of Astrophysic	TRANSIT OF VENUS -2012
08 March 2011 Tuesday 17:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	In the Quest of Structure and Function Dorothy Hodgkin: Scientist and Social Activist
03 February 2011 Thursday 17:45 hrs	Professor Roddam Narasimha Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore	The Hydrodynamics of Cumulus Clouds
02 February 2011 Wednesday 17:30 hrs	Professor Hans Meinhardt Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology T�bingen, Germany	Pattern Formation in Biology: local self-enhancement and long-ranging inhibition as the driving force
16 April 2010 Friday 17:30 hrs	Andre Béteille Delhi University, New Delhi	Can Rights Undermine Trust? How Institutions Work and Why they Fail
19 March 2010 Friday 17:30 hrs	Mike Dopita Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australia	Hubble´s New Window to the Universe
08 March 2010 Monday 17:30 hrs	Eric Cornell University of Colorado & National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA	Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree Above Absolute Zero
15 February 2010 Monday 17:00 hrs	C V Vishveshwara Formerly Indian Institute of Astrophysics & J N Planetarium	Galileo´s Gift
25 January 2010 Monday 17:30 hrs	William D. Phillips National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA	3rd Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
06 January 2010 Wednesday 17:00 hrs	Alan Brody Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA	Enriching Science Education: The Role of Science Theatre
22 October 2009 Thursday 17:00 hrs	T Jayaraman Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai & Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	From Static Worlds to Evolving Systems: Philosophical Implications of Changes in the Natural World
29 May 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	Sabyasachi Chatterjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Meghnad Saha: The Scientist and the Crusader
30 April 2009 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Balachandra Rao Gandhi Centre of Science & Human Values,Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore	Classical Indian Astronomy - Some Landmarks
03 April 2009 Friday 17:30 hrs	Madhav Gadgil Agharkar Research Institute, Pune	Major Transitions in Evolution
13 March 2009 Friday 16:00 hrs	R Rajaraman Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	Hans Albrecht Bethe: A Giant in Physics and a Statesman in Nuclear Disarmament
16 February 2009 Monday 16:00 hrs	Loren W. Acton Montana State University, Bozeman, USA	Space Travel and Space Research
03 December 2008 Wednesday 18:30 hrs	Douglas Gough University of Cambridge, U.K.	2nd Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture: What is a Sunspot?
21 November 2008 Friday 16:00 hrs	Palahalli Vishwanath Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Galileo: The Scientist and the Man
26 August 2008 Tuesday 10:45 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
26 August 2008 Tuesday 10:10 hrs	H. C. Bhatt Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Birth of Stars
18 June 2008 Wednesday 00:00 hrs	C Sivaram Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Dark Universe
28 February 2008 Thursday 16:30 hrs	Prajval Shastri Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Harnessing Gravity � Shining Black Holes and Growing Galaxies
28 February 2008 Thursday 12:15 hrs	E. Ebenezer Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Sun & Radio Astronomy
28 February 2008 Thursday 11:45 hrs	Dipankar Banerjee Indian Institute of Astrophysics	The Sun-Earth Connection
10 August 2007 Friday 16:30 hrs	Jayant Murthy Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Science from Space: 50 years of Space Flight
09 August 2007 Thursday 16:00 hrs	Vivek Monteiro Navnirmiti, Mumbai	Sunderstanding - The Sun as a Learning Resource for Universalising Science

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